Company Sergeant Major 3790, Edward James, of the 13th Battalion, the Royal Sussex Regiment, was born in 1874 at Sandhurst, Kent, the son of Lieutenant Commander Henry James and Emily Crouch.
The 1891 census records him living in the house of William and Clara Falls at Eastbourne.
He joined the Army, presumably the Royal Sussex Regiment, in time to serve in the Sudan Campaign and the South African War.
On the 29th of September 1902, he married Jane Weller, in the Battle District.
The 1911 census records him and Jane, born at Hawkhurst in 1883, living at 5, Leopolds Flats, Bexhill Edward was a jobbing gardener. Children recorded were Dorothy, born 1905, Edward, born 1907, Winifred, born 1909 and Frank, born 1911.
Edward re-enlisted into the Royal Sussex Regiment at Hastings; his Medal Index Card records his entitlement to the War Medal and the Victory Medal.
He died of wounds at Greylingwell Hospital, Chichester on the 7th of July 1916, and is buried in Chichester Cemetery. The CWGC gives his address as 108 Windsor Road, Bexhill. He is remembered on the grave of his parents in Bexhill (St Mark) Churchyard.
[His brother, Frank James also served with the Royal Sussex Regiment and was killed in action near Ypres on the 9th of November, 1914; he has no known grave and is remembered on the Menin Gate Memorial]
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